It will shock readers not merely because it is an impassioned, often
hysterical defense of the Prussian tradition, but because, with the
ink of the peace treaties barely dry, it brusquely awakes the war-dazed
U.S. mind to the fact that suddenly there is no longer any such thing
as "subversive" literature. The very freedom for which the
U.S. has been fighting demands that such books be given a hearing.